BMI Weekly Newsletter

September 3, 2024

News:

• Congratulations to Dr. Sharon Ackerman on being selected as a recipient of the Dean's Office Award for the Kamran S. Moghissi, M.D. Endowed Faculty Award for Excellence in Basic Science Teaching.
• Congratulations to Dr. Eric Sebzda on being selected as a recipient of the Wayne State University School of Medicine’s College Teaching Award.
• The BMI Faculty meeting will be held on Thursday, September 12, 2024, 11:30am, 7374 Scott Hall.  Agenda and zoom link will be sent prior to meeting.

Events: 

• No BMI Seminar scheduled for this week.

Upcoming Events:

• BMI Seminar: Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 11:30 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall
  Presenter: Mark Hochstrasser, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of the Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
  Title: “New roles for ubiquitin in cell homeostasis and endosymbiont-host interactions”
  Hosted by: Shichao Wu gy7774@wayne.edu and BMB students
  
  For all in-person seminars, students need to attend in-person, and for zoom seminars, students need to attend via zoom, in order for attendance to be counted. Student/Speaker luncheon in room 7370 Scott Hall following this seminar.

 

• BMI ZOOM Seminar: Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
  Presenter: Angela Potochnik, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Head of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science at the University of Cincinnati.
  Her research addresses the nature of science and its successes, the relationships between science and the public, and methods in science, especially biology. She is the author of Idealization and the Aims of Science (2017) and Science and the Public (2024) and coauthor of Recipes for Science (2018, 2nd Ed. 2024), an introduction to scientific methods and reasoning. 
  Title: “Recipes for Science: An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning.”
  Zoom link: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/92791529535?pwd=aP0JKkmWsv9YybJixaL3qa2xRkSt8x.1
  Host: Dr. Matt Jackson mpjacks@med.wayne.edu
  For all in-person seminars, students need to attend in-person, and for zoom seminars, students need to attend via zoom, for attendance to be counted. Graduate Students will need to stay on following the seminar presentation to meet via zoom with Dr. Potochnik.

Campus News:

• Campus Health Center: Campus Health Center - Wayne State University
• Office of President: Campus Resources link for Students, Faculty and Staff, Campus Resource Link